Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Etieyibo, Edwin; Ikuenobe, Polycarp

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Ifeanyi Menkiti's articulation of an African conception of personhood-especially in "Person and Community in African Traditional Thought" -has become very influential in African philosophy. Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person contributes to the debate in African philosophy on personhood by engaging with various aspects of Menkiti's account of person and community. The contributors examine this account in relation to themes such as individualism, communalism, rights, individual liberty, moral agency, communal ethics, education, state and nation building, elderhood and ancestorhood. Through these themes, this book, edited by Edwin Etieyibo and Polycarp Ikuenobe, shows that Menkiti's account of personhood in the context of community is both fundamental and foundational to epistemological, metaphysical, logical, ethical, legal, social and political issues in African thought systems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978758445
• Artikelnr.: 74398247

Autorenporträt

Edwin Etieyibo is professor of philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand. Polycarp Ikuenobe is professor of philosophy at Kent State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Edwin Etieyibo and Polycarp Ikuenobe
Chapter 1: Caught Between Two Manifestos: Menkiti and an Attempt at a
Mediation
Dismas A. Masolo
Chapter 2: Discussions of African Communitarianism with Specific Reference
to Menkiti and Rawls
Barry Hallen
Chapter 3: Persons and Citizens
Katrin Flikschuh
Chapter 4: The Sociality of Persons
Edwin Etieyibo
Chapter 5: Personal Persistence and Narrative Unity: The Case of Ancestral
Persons
Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe
Chapter 6: Menkiti's Account of the Social Ontology of African Community
and Persons Polycarp Ikuenobe
Chapter 7: African Communitarianism and the Imperative for Moral Education
Michael Onyebuchi Eze
Chapter 8: Community, Individuality, and Reciprocity in Menkiti
Thaddeus Metz
Chapter 9: Elderhood and Ancestorhood: Exemplar of a Person in African
Community
Polycarp Ikuenobe and Edwin Etieyibo
Chapter 10: An Outline of Menkiti's Metaphysical Commitment
Bernard Matolino
Chapter 11: Personhood and State Building in Africa
Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani
Chapter 12: I Can't Unless You Can
Helen Lauer
Chapter 13: Before a Common Soil: Personhood, Community and the Duty to
Bear Witness
Uchenna Okeja
Chapter 14: Who Gets a Place in Person-Space?
Simon Beck and Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe
Chapter 15: Menkiti as a Man of Community
Edwin Etieyibo
Afterword
About the Contributors